confectionery bowl; sweet bowl
A bowl specifically for serving Japanese or Western sweets, often used in tea ceremony contexts or for guests.
At the tea gathering, seasonal Japanese sweets were arranged in a beautiful confectionery bowl.
Compound of 菓子 (kashi, 'sweets, confectionery') and 鉢 (hachi, 'bowl, pot'). The reading ばち is a rendaku form of はち.